Bill Browder On Saving Ukraine, NATO, And The Threat Of Vladimir Putin

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🗓️ 15 December 2024

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Bill Browder is a financier turned anti-corruption campaigner. He made his fortune in post-Soviet Russia before falling afoul of Putin.

We last spoke to him back in 2018. Back then, few imagined Russia would dare carry out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But Browder wasn't one of them.

Now, with Donald Trump's return to the White House just weeks away, the newly knighted Browder tell us world leaders must act. He joins us to explain why Putin remains such a huge threat to Ukraine and the world.

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0:23.8	This is Bill Browder.
0:27.1	Vladimir Putin is running a mafia state.
0:28.4	He's the capo.
0:30.2	He's the head mafia boss.
0:39.8	And his intention is to commit terrible crimes, get away with them, and further his reach. We should be scared of Vladimir Putin.
0:46.4	We should do everything possible to contain his evil intentions. We should support NATO, which is our joint defense agreement with other countries. And we shouldn't allow Putin to run riot over
0:53.2	Ukraine and Syria and all these other countries.
0:55.6	That's from when we last spoke to Bill Browder in 2018. He's a financier-turned-anti-corruption
1:01.4	campaigner who made his fortune in post-Soviet Russia before falling afoul of President Putin.
1:07.1	Back then, few imagined Russia would dare carry out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but Browder
1:12.9	wasn't one of them. Now, with Donald Trump's return to the White House just weeks away, Bill Browder
1:18.1	says world leaders must act immediately to give Ukraine the support it needs and avoid a humanitarian
1:24.1	crisis of unprecedented scale across Europe. He joins us after the break to explain
1:29.3	why Putin remains such a huge threat to Ukraine and the world. I'm Jen White. You're listening to
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